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Sample from: 'The New Feminism & Its Critics' | Product code: HS522 Contents Teacher Introduction ....................................1 Suggestions to the Student...............................5 Introductory Essay ..................................... 6 The New Feminism Time Line .............................7 First Group of Documents ............................... 8 Study the Documents .................................10 Comparing the Documents .............................12 Comparison Essay....................................13 Second Group of Documents ............................14 Study the Documents .................................16 Comparing the Documents .............................18 Comparison Essay....................................19 Document-Based Question............................. 20 Visual Primary Sources .................................21 Teacher Introduction Sample from: 'The New Feminism & Its Critics' | Product code: HS522 Teacher Introduction Using Primary Sources “Multiple, Primary sources are called “primary” because they are first- hand records of a past era or historical event. They are the conflicting raw materials, or the evidence, on which historians base their “secondary” accounts of the past. perspectives are A rapidly growing number of history teachers today are using primary sources. Why? Perhaps it’s because primary sources give students a better sense of what history is and what among the truths historians do. Such sources also help students see the past from a variety of viewpoints. Moreover, primary sources make of history. history vivid and bring it to life. However, primary sources are not easy to use. They can be No single confusing. They can be biased. They rarely all agree. Primary sources must be interpreted and set in context. To do this, students need historical background knowledge. Debating objective or the Documents helps students handle such challenges by giving them a useful framework for analyzing sources that universal account conflict with one another. could ever put an end to this endless creative dialogue within and between the past and the present.” From the 2011 Statement on Standards of Professional Conduct of the Council of the American Historical Association. The New Feminism & Its Critics | Debating the Documents 1 Sample from: 'The New Feminism & Its Critics' | Product code: HS522 Teacher INTRODUCTION The Debating the Documents Series Each Debating the Documents booklet includes the same sequence of reproducible worksheets. If students use several booklets over time, they will get regular practice at interpreting and comparing conflicting sources. In this way, they can learn the skills and habits needed to get the most out of primary sources. Each Debating the Documents Booklet Includes • Suggestions for the Student and an Introductory Essay. The student gets instructions and a one-page essay providing background on the booklet’s topic. A time line on the topic is also included. • Two Groups of Contrasting Primary Source Documents. In most of the booklets, students get one pair of visual sources and one pair of written sources. In some cases, more than two are provided for each. Background is provided on each source. Within each group, the sources clash in a very clear way. (The sources are not always exact opposites, but they do always differ in some obvious way.) • Three Worksheets for Each Document Group. Students use the first two worksheets to take notes on the sources. The third worksheet asks which source the student thinks would be most useful to a historian. • One DBQ. On page 20, a document-based question (DBQ) asks students to write an effective essay using all of the booklet’s primary sources. How to Use This Booklet 1. Have students read “Suggestions for the Student” and the Introductory Essay. Give them copies of pages 5–7. Ask them to read the instructions and then read the introductory essay on the topic. The time line gives them additional information on that topic. This reading could be done in class or as a homework assignment. 2. Have students do the worksheets. Make copies of the worksheets and the pages with the sources. Ask students to study the background information on each source and the source itself. Then have them take notes on the sources using the worksheets. If students have access to a computer, have them review the primary sources digitally. 2 Debating the Documents | The New Feminism & Its Critics Sample from: 'The New Feminism & Its Critics' | Product code: HS522 Teacher INTRODUCTION 3. “Debate the documents” as a class. Have students use their worksheet notes to debate the primary source documents as a class. Urge students to follow these ground rules: • Use your worksheets as a guide for the discussion or debate. • Try to reach agreement about the main ideas and the significance of each primary source document. • Look for points of agreement as well as disagreement between the primary sources. • Listen closely to all points of view about each primary source. • Focus on the usefulness of each source to the historian, not merely on whether you agree or disagree with that source’s point of view. 4. Have students do the final DBQ. A DBQ is an essay question about a set of primary source documents. To answer the DBQ, students write essays using evidence from the sources and their own background knowledge of the historical era. (See the next page for a DBQ scoring guide to use in evaluating these essays.) The DBQ assignment on page 20 includes guidelines for writing a DBQ essay. Here are some additional points to make with students about preparing to write this kind of essay. The DBQ for this Booklet (see page 20): “Starting in the 1960s, a new feminist movement opened doors for all women. Its critics only want to force women back into second-class citizenship again.” Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Why? • Analyze the question carefully. • Use your background knowledge to set sources in their historical context. • Question and interpret sources actively. Do not accept them at face value. • Use sources meaningfully to support your essay’s thesis. • Pay attention to the overall organization of your essay. The New Feminism & Its Critics | Debating the Documents 3 Sample from: 'The New Feminism & Its Critics' | Product code: HS522 Teacher INTRODUCTION Complete DBQ Scoring Guide Use this guide in evaluating the DBQ for this booklet. Use this scoring guide with students who are already familiar with using primary sources and writing DBQ essays. Excellent Essay • Offers a clear answer or thesis explicitly addressing all aspects of the essay question. • Does a careful job of interpreting many or most of the documents and relating them clearly to the thesis and the DBQ. Deals with conflicting documents effectively. • Uses details and examples effectively to support the thesis and other main ideas. Explains the significance of those details and examples well. • Uses background knowledge and the documents in a balanced way. • Is well written; clear transitions make the essay easy to follow from point to point. Only a few minor writing errors or errors of fact. Good Essay • Offers a reasonable thesis addressing the essential points of the essay question. • Adequately interprets at least some of the documents and relates them to the thesis and the DBQ. • Usually relates details and examples meaningfully to the thesis or other main ideas. • Includes some relevant background knowledge. • May have some writing errors or errors of fact, as long as these do not invalidate the essay’s overall argument or point of view. Fair Essay • Offers at least a partly developed thesis addressing the essay question. • Adequately interprets at least a few of the documents. • Relates only a few of the details and examples to the thesis or other main ideas. • Includes some background knowledge. • Has several writing errors or errors of fact that make it harder to understand the essay’s overall argument or point of view. Poor Essay • Offers no clear thesis or answer addressing the DBQ. • Uses few documents effectively other than referring to them in “laundry list” style, with no meaningful relationship to a thesis or any main point. • Uses details and examples unrelated to the thesis or other main ideas. Does not explain the significance of these details and examples. • Is not clearly written, with some major writing errors or errors of fact. 4 Debating the Documents | The New Feminism & Its Critics Suggestions to the Student Sample from: 'The New Feminism & Its Critics' | Product code: HS522 Suggestions to the Student Using Primary Sources A primary source is any record of evidence from the past. Many things are primary sources: letters, diary entries, official documents, photos, cartoons, wills, maps, charts, etc. They are called “primary” because they are first-hand records of a past event or time period. This Debating the Documents lesson is based on two groups of primary source documents. Within each group, the sources conflict with one another. That is, they express different or even opposed points of view. You need to decide which source is more reliable, more useful, or more typical of the time period. This is what historians do all the time. Usually, you will be able to learn something about the past from